Opera Obsessed

When narrator Julian Harcourt, on his way to the Met Opera, is knocked down by a taxi in front of Lincoln Center, he has no expectation that a handsome young man—a tenor—will help him up. But Stuart Kreisler happens to be right there. And then they both have to decide if a friendship will follow. Will Julian be swept off his feet—figuratively, this time? Or does the universe have quite different plans?

Julian is living a good life, isn’t he? He has a career and an apartment he adores. He has...